Another Packager Manager Is Running

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 12:23 -0500, SChristopherAZ at aol.com wrote:
> I had previously restarted the computer and the minute that it
> restarted I went to Synaptic as well as the Ubuntu Update Manager and
> nothing worked...same error message. So what I might have to do is go
> into maintenance  mode to delete the file? Sad part is....using
> command line I don't know how to delete files. :-P But I;ll give that
> a shot when I get home and let you know.
>  
> Shawn

Either that, or by issuing:
        sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
and entering your password.  (You can issue any superuser (root) command
by running "sudo command".)

(Oh, and as a side note, please replay to the list so everyone can share
and help. I replayed to you and the list in the first post by mistake.
Replaying to list should be enough.)
Ziyad.